Bolster-stake holder.



G. FAUST.

BOLSTER STAKE HOLDER.

APPLIGATION FILED 313.18, 1914.

1,096,028, Patented May'12, 1914.

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CASPER FAUST, OF OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN.

BOLSTER-S'IAKE HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 12, 1914..

Application filed February is, 1914. Serial No. 819,457.

'0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CASPER FAUs'r, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Oshkosh, in the county of Winnebago and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bolster- Stake Holders; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Referring to my Letters Patent Nos. 1,082,073 and 1,082,074, of December 23, 1913, my present invention consists in what is herein particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims of this specification its object being to improve the locking mechanism of the stake holders to which said Letters Patent relate, and to prevent automatic release of the stakes subsequent to the withdrawal of pins by which links in connection with swing members of the stakesockets are held in engagement with lugs of stationary members of said sockets.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a sectional view of a fragment of a flat car, and one of my bolster-stake holders in connection therewith engaged by a stake, the holder and stake being in elevation; Fig. 2, a plan view partly in horizontal section, the same being indicated by line 22 in Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a sectional view of a detail of the holder indicated by line 33 in Fig. 1; Fig. 4, a view similar to Fig. 3, illustrating certain of the movable parts in another position; Fig. 5, an elevation of another form of the stake holder embodying my improvements, and Figs. 6 and 7, detail views illustrating a variation in form of some of the elements of the mechanism shown in the other illustrations.

Referring by characters to the drawings A, A, indicate bolster stakes similar to those shown in the respective Letters-Patent above noted, 6 a side sill of a fiat car, and 7 the car flooring. Bolted or otherwise rigidly secured to the outside of the sill is the back-plate or wall of a stake socket similar to what is disclosed in my Letters Patent No. 1,082,073, aforesaid, and which is shown in Fig. 2, as having parallel cheek-plates 8 forming side walls of said socket, its front wall being a saddle-plate 9 having end lugs 10 each provided with a lateral horizontal outer eye 11 engaged by a lug-straddling link. One of the links 12 also engages a vertical eye 13 of an outer lug 14 of one of the cheek-plates of the stake socket and said link is astraddle of the latter lug. The other link 12 of the closed socket is astraddle of a lug 141' of the adjacent checkplate of said socket and held thereon by a pin 15 that extends through the same, the point-end of the pin being crooked as shown in Figs. 1 and 5. The aperture in the cheekplate lug 14; is elongated to permit of the engagement of the pin 15 with said lug when said pin is held at a right angle to the illustrated posi tion of the same. After being engaged with the lug 141, the pin is turned to the position herein shown and its crook prevents it from being automatically displaced. To prevent loss or misplacement of the pin, the same is attached to a chain 16 in engagement with one of the bolts by which the back-plate of the socket is fastened to the adjacent sill.

The link 12' in one form of the showing is provided with an ear-extension 17 at that end thereof that engages with the cheekplate lug 14, and a vertical eye 18 rigid with the ear is a bearing engaged by an approximately right-angle link 19 constituting a lever in opposition at its inner end to a slide-block 20 which block is socketed to engage said eye, and provided with an outer depending nose 21 designed to oppose the same eye and constitute a stop forward thereof when said block is in working position.

The block 20 is vertically slotted and the slot 22 is engaged by a guide-bolt 23 in connection with the adjacent cheelrplate of the stake socket, and said block prevents displacement of the link 12 from the cheekplate lug 1 1 after removal of the pin 15 from said lug until such time as the crooked link 19 is operated as a lever to lift the aforesaid block. To facilitate lifting of the block from a distance, a chain having a hook 24 at one end thereof may be employed as shown in Fig. 4, or a hook-rod similar to the one shown in my Letters Patent No. 1,082,073 may be substituted for said chain and hook.

The chain of which a fragment 25 is shown in Fig. 1, is intended for connecting opposite bolster-stakes.

In Fig. 5, the stake-socket is similar to the one shown in my Letters-Patent No. 1,082,074 aforesaid, an end link 12" of a chain element of the same being provided with an ear-extension 17, a vertical eye 18 rigid with the ear for engagement with a slide-block 20 having an eye-opposing nose 21 and positioned over a lever-link 19 engaging said. eye, the block being vertically slotted and guided on a bolt 23 in connection with the swing-member 28 of said socket.

In Figs. 6 and 7, the lifting device for the slide block 20 or 20' is a forked and crooked lever 19 hung on a pintle or bearing eX- tension 17" of a link 12 that engages with the adjacent cheek-piece or swing-member lug 14', said pintle extension of the link being outwardly upset to prevent displacement of the lever.

The nose 21 of aslide-block 20 opposes the pintle-extension of the link 12 forward of the same to constitute a stop for the purpose aforesaid when said block is in working position at rest on the fork branches of the lever and by an operation of said lever, the aforesaid block is lifted to have said nose thereof clear said extension of said link. The free end of the lever 19 is in the form of a hook 19 for the engagement with a link of a chain 24; by which to facilitate lifting of the adjacent slide-block from a distance. Or a chain-carried hook 24 or a hookrod as aforesaid may be caught on the hook end of the lever for the same purpose.

I claim:

1. A bolster-stake socket member having an outer lug provided with an elongated aperture therein, and a crooked point pin for engagement with said aperture forward of a link astraddle of the lug, the placing or re moval of the pin requiring an alinement of its crook with the lugaperture.

2. A bolster-stake socket member having an outer lug for engagement with a fastening link provided with a bearing-extension a lever engaging the link-extension, and a slide-block guided in connection with said member of the socket over said lever to constitute a stop forward of said link extension.

3. A bolster-stake socket member having an outer lug for engagement with a fastening link provided with a bearing-extension, a lever engaging the link-extension, and a slide-block guided in connection with said member of the stake socket over said lever and which is provided with a depending nose designed to outwardly oppose said linkextension.

4. A bolster-stake socket member having an outer lug for engagement with a fastening link provided with a bearing-extension, a lever engaging the link-extension, a slideblock guided in connection with said member of the socket over said lever to constitute a stop forward of said link-extension, and an auxiliary stop in the form of a pin engageable with said lug forward of said link.

5. A-bolster-stake socket member having an outer lug for engagement with a fastening link provided with a bearing-extension, a lever engaging the link-extension, a vertically slotted block over said lever constituting a stop forward of said linlcextension, and a guide-bolt with said member of the socket in engagement with the slide-block slot.

6. A bolster-stake socket-member having an outer lug for engagement with a fastening link provided with a bearing-extension, a lever engaging the linlcextension and hav ing its free end in the form of a hook, and a slide-block guided in connection with said member of the socket over said lever to constitute a stop forward of said link-extension.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand at Milwaukee in the county of Milwaukee and State of VVisconsin in the presence of two witnesses.

CASPER FAUST.

\Vitnesses:

H. E. OLIPHANT, M. E. DOWNEY.

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